Why has the Most Innovative of Species become so dangerous? The answer, suggests Peter Russell, lies in humanity\'s accelerating pace of development.
How do we live with exponential change? How can we prepare for a world that is becoming increasingly unpredictable? What does it mean for the future of humanity?.
Spiraling rates of development, with all their consequences, positive and negative, are the inevitable fate of any intelligent, technologically-empowered species.
Russell proposes there is no blame for this.
We are heading into a future with technology beyond our dreams, but in a world that is breaking at the seams.
The greater the pace of change, the greater the stress and the more likely systemic breakdown.
But ever-accelerating change also creates stress on the systems involved-personal, social, and planetary.
However fast the pace of change may be today, it will be much faster in the years to come, bringing ever more rapid scientific and technological advances.
We think more in terms of linear change rather than exponential change.
This creates a blind spot on the future.
But our minds cannot grasp the full implications of exponential growth.
He shows how innovation breeds further innovation-a positive feedback loop that leads to exponentially increasing rates of change.
Why has the Most Innovative of Species become so dangerous? The answer, suggests Peter Russell, lies in humanity\'s accelerating pace of development
